Laura Ridenour on Clubhouse

Bio

Nonprofit and mission-driven business consultant with 20+ years experience. 💗 Radical self acceptance and 🧠 mindset can change the world.

👀 Looking to connect with humans, converse, share skills, learn in community, and level up.

🙌 Passionate about building functional personal and business systems for social change so we can address systems of oppression, species collapse, and climate change from a place of resilience. 🌏

💰 Grant writing, program design, and community centric fundraising AF.

👋 I know how to manage a virtual room with inclusivity. Available to moderate. Topics I love: resilience, mindfulness, self coaching, anxiety recovery, managing your mind, diversity, equity and inclusion, ecosystems, soul’s path, happiness theory, leadership, network weaving, nonprofit and mission-driven enterprises.

A bit more about me:
🏙Detroit born, rural Tennessee and urban northern California raised, 🌲 PNW rooted.
🥷grew up on welfare with single mom.
🪄 Second generation organic food entrepreneur.
⚖️ Feminists is for everyone
🍎 high school drop out, back to school late 20s, made my own degree. taught US food security, history of organic certification and sustainability, marketing, small biz development, disaster and human resilience.
🥗 MA Sociology- what people create together matters. Justice and equality matters.
🏦 Created financial capacity programs for underseved entrepreneurs.
🚜 Founder of Eat Local First Washington & Whatcom Food Network.
✍️ Co-Author of Small Farm Direct Marketing Handbook.
🎤 Not afraid to Speak truth to power.
🧘‍♀️ mindfulness, and self-coaching saved me from anxiety and depression.

More about me personally:
Queer single mom. 💪
I love conviviality and food culture. 🍱
GF baking expert. 👩‍🍳
Equity and anti-racism advocate 🌈
Cycling and Kundalini lover. 🚴
Energy work, Astrology for the soul student.🙏